For gluck sake.

[hatam_soferet]

Verbatim:

Hi Jen,

Just got an email from a friend with 200 FWD FWD infront of it and got to
know your Barbie tefillin.

Before I knew it I ended up on your website and read about you. I think it
is a cute Barbie. Yehh it is cute.

I also am very happy that you like being a soferet.

Also I read the "Conservatives think I am an orthodox and orthodox think I
am a conservative"

Well I really think that it doesn't matter what people think. All that
matters is that what you think of yourself and how YOU talk with god when
you need him.

Beside all that I was just wondering if you really belive that a Jewish
lady needs to wear Teffilin and tzitzit?

I mean Tefillin and tzitzit are religious items that God ordered Jewish men
to wear.

If you belive in God and Judaism and you know that God didn't see the need
for a Jewish lady to wear it, why push it then?

Judaism thinks very highly of women as we can see in many parts of Talmud,
how when a man is not married to a woman his life is not in order and he
doesn't have "beracha" blessing in his house etc.

Hashem created women holy with built in understanding of spirituality

Men don't have as much of that and that is why they need to go to bet
hakeneset for every tefilah and wear tzitzit and kipah and tefilin etc to
bring them up to that level and remind them of all that.

God who created us knew the need of each one of us in order to be a better
person and ordered us certain things.

I don't know you and not sure what your philosophy is, all I know is that
you are Jewish and belive in god and that is all that matters.

I think this cute Barbie sends a wrong message to people specially to
younger or uneducated Jews.

It might look like this statue is a way of making fun of the laws of God, by
holding the torah in hand and doing all the "Do Not Do S" in it.

It was just a thought and I would be very happy to hear your point of view
on that.

Gluck to you and kol am yisraell.

I think the response goes like this:
I have found overwhelmingly that emails phrased like yours come from people who are primarily interested in describing their point of view, and who are not actually interested in hearing what I have to say. If this is not you, and you are actually interested in how I view Judaism, you may read my blog, Hatam Soferet. Please bear in mind that you are not saying anything I have not heard many, many times before. I do not find your opinions compelling, or, for that matter, interesting, which is why we will not be continuing this correspondence.